What’s On View

Floor 4
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
Discover Ruth Asawa's extraordinary experimental vision and how San Francisco became the center of her creative universe in the most expansive exhibition of the artist's work to date.
Closing Sept 02, 2025
Floor 3
Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting
Photography and painting unite in Kunié Sugiura's dynamic hybrid forms.
New Exhibition: Opened April 26
Floor 2closing soonfree to see
2024 SECA Art Award: Rose D'Amato, Angela Hennessy, Rupy C. Tut
The 2024 SECA Art Award celebrates Rose D’Amato, Angela Hennessy, and Rupy C. Tut. Each artist has conceived a gallery with new works that bring distinct perspectives, processes, and materials into the museum.
Closing May 26, 2025
Floor 3
Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography
Using work by members of Group f64 as a nexus, this exhibition explores various histories of Bay Area photography from the 1910s to the present.
Closing July 13, 2025
Floor 6
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
An atmospheric video installation of artist Ragnar Kjartansson and his musician friends performing in a historic mansion.
Closing Sept 28, 2025
Two visitors stand inside an SFMOMA gallery in front of three out of nine screens showing Ragnar Kjartansson’s beloved video installation The Visitors.
Floor 3closing soon
Alexandra Pirici: Re-collection
May 10–30, 2025
Floor 4
New Work: Samson Young
Dec 21, 2024–June 22, 2025
Floor 6
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love
June 22, 2024–Aug 10, 2025
Floor 5
Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections
Ongoing
Artwork Untitled Golden by artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres is a curtain made up of strands of golden beads hanging from an SFMOMA gallery doorway.
Various
Bay Area Walls
Ongoing
Floor 1free to see
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
July 1, 2024–Spring 2026
Floor 3
Table Manners
Sept 14, 2024–May 31, 2026
Floor 3
Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony
Ongoing
Floor 2
1900 to Now: SFMOMA's Collection
Ongoing
Floor 4
Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction
Ongoing
Floor 6
German Art After 1960
Ongoing
Two people sit on a bench observing Gerhard Richter's artwork 256 Farben (256 Colors) in the SFMOMA gallery for German art.

Installations and Special Projects

Floor 1free to see
Al Wong: Twin Peaks
Apr 26, 2025–Summer 2026
Floor 2, Helen and Charles Schwab Hallfree to see
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes
Ongoing
Floor 5
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel
Ongoing
Howard Street Entrancefree to see
Arborhythm
Ongoing
Floor 5
Yayoi Kusama: Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart
Sept 16, 2023–Nov 16, 2025
Floor 1free to see
Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)
Ongoing

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Floor 4
KAWS: FAMILY
KAWS: FAMILY explores the distinctive universe of pop culture–inspired characters created by Brian Donnelly, known globally as KAWS.
November 15, 2025–Spring 2026
Floor 7
Susan Philipsz: Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing, Sympathy and Release
Closing March 3, 2024
Two people, one sitting and one standing outdoors on the SFMOMA terrace, enjoy the sound installation by artist Susan Philipsz while looking at panoramic views of downtown San Francisco.
Floor 7
Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear
Nov 11, 2023–Mar 03, 2024
Floor 2
Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales
Aug 05, 2023–Feb 19, 2024
Floor 4
New Work: Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Sept 23, 2023–Jan 28, 2024
Floor 4
Pacita Abad
Oct 21, 2023–Jan 28, 2024
Roberts Family Gallery, Floor 1  free to see
Pan American Unity: A Mural by Diego Rivera
June 28, 2021–Jan 21, 2024
Detail view of Diego Rivera's mural Pan American Unity.
Floor 2
KLEE + BSS
Paul Klee and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Apr 07, 2023–Jan 21, 2024
A detail view of a brochure artist Barbara Stauffacher Solomon created for a Paul Klee exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Floor 2
Hung Liu: Witness
June 30, 2023–Dec 10, 2023
Floor 3
Kinship: Photography and Connection
May 20, 2023–Nov 26, 2023
Floor 7
Frank Bowling: The New York Years 1966–1975
May 20, 2023–Sept 10, 2023
Floor 5
Corporeal
Feb 18, 2023–July 30, 2023
The artwork Tarpaulin No. 1, by artist Rebecca Belmore, is a ceramic blanket on the ground shaped as though draped over an invisible human figure.
Floor 1
Janet Cardiff: The Telephone Call
Mar 25, 2023–July 23, 2023
A woman wears headphones attached to a mobile phone that she holds in front of her as she walks the SFMOMA galleries listening to the guided interactive The Telephone Call by Janet Cardiff.
Floor 4
New Work: Anna Sew Hoy
Mar 25, 2023–July 16, 2023
The artwork Hard Swamp Ecstatic Return by artist Anna Sew Hoy shows hand-built clay arches over a metal cage and denim scraps.
Koret Education Center, Floor 2free to see
Acción Latina: The ’80s Matter in the Mission
Oct 06, 2022–June 27, 2023
The mural Nuestros Muertos No Se Venden by Elizabeth Blancas.
Floor 6
Conversation Pieces
Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue
Aug 20, 2022–June 25, 2023
Installation view of the exhibition Conversation Pieces, featuring works of furniture, including various chair designs.
Floor 6, City Gallery
Scrappy Chair Challenge
June 15, 2023–June 25, 2023
Floor 3
(a)way station
Paul Kariouk and Mabel O. Wilson
July 16, 2022–June 11, 2023
A still of the video artwork ​(a)way station​ by Paul Kariouk and Mabel O. Wilson.
Floor 2
2022 SECA Art Award Exhibition
Dec 17, 2022–May 29, 2023
Two people sitting on benches inside of an SFMOMA gallery staring up at an artwork installation by artist Marcel Pardo Ariza.
Floor 7
Julian Charrière: Erratic
Aug 06, 2022–May 14, 2023
An artwork named The Blue Fossil Entropic III by artist Julian Charrière, depicts an arctic landscape capturing a person scaling a glacier at night.
Floor 4
Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon
Apr 22, 2023–May 11, 2023
Sadie Barnette's, ​The New Eagle Creek Saloon​, 2019 (installation view, The Kitchen, New York, 2022).